Viewing from April 2020
Cuban doctors recommended for Nobel Prize in recognition of coronavirus efforts
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020
CUBA’S medical mission has been recommended for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its efforts in the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic. French solidarity organisation Cuba Linda has called for the award to be given to the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Brigade which has deployed health workers to ... read more
Lift Cuba embargo or risk many lives lost to COVID-19, UN rights experts warn US
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020
The United States must urgently lift its blockade on Cuba to save lives amid the expanding COVID-19 crisis, UN human rights experts stressed on Thursday, emphasizing that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food and other goods essential to surviving the pandemic. The joint ... read more
Cuba is Ready to Aid the U.S. in its Fight Against COVID-19.
News from Cuba | Thursday, 30 April 2020
Despite Trump’s sanctions, Cuba advocates international solidarity as the only way to overcome this pandemic. It is hardly surprising that the Trump Administration walked back from one of Obama’s signature foreign policy moves. Donald Trump has worked to undo relations between the United States and Cuba, as he has done to other ... read more
Interferon's Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Cuban scientific authorities confirmed in April that the use of Interferon to treat COVID-19 patients was indeed effective.Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, President of the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), affirmed that the Interferon application complies with Cuban Health Ministry (Minsap) protocols. Pimentel stated that it is part of ... read more
US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020
The pharmaceutical business group FarmaCuba director Neyra Muguercia reported in April that the U.S. blockade prevents her country from acquiring raw materials for the production of drugs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The U.S. actions against Cuba are increasingly aggressive. They pursue all of our operations. Many times we ... read more
Cuba cannot get Swiss respirators due to US Inhuman Blockade
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. Claiming that they do not wish to subvert the U.S. unilateral sanctions, those companies, which were acquired by ... read more
Biden Says He Would Restore Relations With Cuba If Elected
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Biden said he would engage with Cuba but still sanction its government for backing the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. United States presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday he would go back to former President Barack Obama’s policies toward Cuba if he wins ... read more
Cuba’s Unique Model of Medical Internationalism
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Cuba Standard (CS): What is the Henry Reeve Brigade? John Kirk (JK): The Henry Reeve Brigade was formed in 2005. Responding to the massive problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered 1,400 medical personnel and 32 tons of medicine to help in New Orleans, which was refused by the ... read more
Emergency appeal for Cuba raises over £20,000 in first few days
Campaign News | Monday, 27 April 2020
There has been an amazing response to the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Emergency COVID-19 Appeal for Cuba. Over £20,000 has been donated in the first few days of the appeal by over 500 donors. The money is being sent to Cuba to be used by the Ministry of Health as part of ... read more
In memory of Jude Woodward
Campaign News | Monday, 27 April 2020
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and all our members and affiliates in the UK, we would like to offer our deepest sympathy to Jude’s family, colleagues and friends. Jude was a wonderful friend to the people of Cuba. She was a long standing member of ... read more
Cuba Develops First COVID-19 Tracking App
News from Cuba | Monday, 27 April 2020
"We send information provided by the population to health authorities. Then, medical workers visit people reporting symptoms and make decisions about it. That is the way it works," Alain Pieria, leader of the project, told Xinhua. Yosvel Falero is one of the developers of the first Cuban COVID-19 tracking app ... read more
Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19
News from Cuba | Sunday, 26 April 2020
The group includes family physicians, epidemiologists, biostatists, health technology engineers, and biotechnology experts, among others. A new Cuban medical brigade is scheduled to arrive in South Africa on Sunday to join another group of Cuban colleagues, who are already working in the African country to reinforce the fight against the ... read more
New Cuban Medical Aid Brigade Arrives in St. Lucia
News from Cuba | Thursday, 23 April 2020
The Henry Reeve brigade members are assisting at various health institutions across the country. Cuba’s medical brigade arrived in Saint Lucia to assist COVID-19 patients and prevent the virus from spreading. Biomedical engineers, nurses, and doctors made up the new group that reinforces Cuban medical aid on the Caribbean island. The ... read more
Cuban drug to strengthen natural immunity in trial phase
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Given the threat posed by the new coronavirus, it is encouraging to learn that trials are underway in Cuba of a vaccine to strengthen innate immunity, to help reduce the risk of infectious agents entering the human body. The new drug, CIGB 2020 Immunopotentiator, is applied nasally or sublingually, and has ... read more
Argentina to Soon Welcome 200 Cuban Doctors for COVID-19 Fight
News from Cuba | Monday, 20 April 2020
The Cuban medical brigade is expected to arrive in May when the infection rate will likely hit its peak in Argentina. Argentina’s government confirmed Sunday night that a contingent of 202 Cuban doctors will arrive in the South American nation to help local health professionals with the spread of ... read more
Cuban doctors are the world’s heroes — their nation needs us now
News from Cuba | Sunday, 19 April 2020
"Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad"- Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary There is a growing worldwide demand to end the US blockade of Cuba to help the international battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Politicians, ... read more
Cuba Calls for International Cooperation to Combat COVID-19
News from Cuba | Thursday, 16 April 2020
The Cuban Foreign Ministry issued a letter this week that called on the international community to come together to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. The impact of COVID19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, ... read more
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: parlamentarios británicos piden que se suspenda el bloqueo estadounidense durante la pandemia de coronavirus
Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Cincuenta y uno miembros británicos del parlamento han escrito a Dominic Raab, Secretario de Estado para Asuntos Exteriores y de la Mancomunidad, Primer Secretario y Primer Ministro en funciones para pedir que se suspenda temporalmente el bloqueo estadounidense de Cuba durante la pandemia de Covid-19. El diputado Grahame Morris, presidente del ... read more
PRESS RELEASE: British MPs call for US blockade to be suspended during coronavirus pandemic
Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Fifty one British members of parliament have written to Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary and acting Prime Minister to call for the US blockade of Cuba to be temporarily suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic. Grahame Morris MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, coordinated the letter which asks ... read more
Over 50 MPs call on government to oppose US blockade of Cuba
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 April 2020
MORE than 50 MPs are calling for the British government to intervene against the US blockade of Cuba. They want Britain to join the international outcry demanding suspension of the illegal blockade which is preventing delivery of medicines and equipment to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. Labour MP Grahame Morris, chairman of the ... read more
Coronavirus response: why Cuba is such an interesting case
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Some countries seem to be weathering the coronavirus pandemic better than others. One country that moved rapidly to deal with the emerging threat was Cuba. Cuba has several advantages over many states, including free universal healthcare, the world’s highest ratio of doctors to population, and positive health indicators, such as high ... read more
Cuba shares what it has
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Another Cuban medical brigade has arrived in Italy, this time in Turin, with 21 doctors, 16 nurses and a logistics coordinator, to save lives without asking anything in return, because solidarity has no price. “We share medical care, life, with other peoples,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla tweeted yesterday, recognizing ... read more
U.S. company buys ventilator supplier and cancels shipments to Cuba citing blockade
News from Cuba | Monday, 13 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. While Cuban medical collaboration is extended around the world to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the insane blockade imposed by the United States on our country, has just ... read more
Cuban-trained Doctor Helps Mobilize Pandemic Response in Her South Bronx Community
News from Cuba | Saturday, 11 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the U.S. healthcare system and exposed its deep structural weaknesses, nowhere more so than New York City. So what would a healthcare system ... read more
13,000 people from 126 different countries sign open letter calling for the end of the US blockade of Cuba.
Campaign News | Thursday, 9 April 2020
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s open letter calling for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad has now been signed by over 13,000 people from 126 different countries around the world. Reports from numerous news outlets from around the Caribbean and Latin America ... read more
Contribution from China to support Cuban fight against COVID-19
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez confirms arrival of donation from the People's Republic of China, to contribute to our battle against the new coronavirus. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez ... read more
UK thanks Cuba for ‘great gesture of solidarity’ in rescuing passengers from coronavirus cruise ship
News from Cuba | Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Britain has thanked Cuban rescue workers for a “great gesture of solidarity” in helping the stranded passengers of a cruise ship struck by coronavirus. In a glowing letter, the ... read more
Inspirational internationalism
News from Cuba | Sunday, 5 April 2020
As the world fights an international battle against the coronavirus pandemic, Cuba has once again proved itself a paragon of internationalism and solidarity. Not only is the island is combating the virus at home with 233 confirmed cases, six deaths and more than 3,000 patients under observation as of 2 April; ... read more
Ayude a Cuba a luchar contra COVID-19 y contra el bloqueo de los Estados Unidos
Campaign News | Sunday, 5 April 2020
Firme nuestra carta abierta aquí Por favor, firme nuestra carta abierta pidiendo que se levante el bloqueo de los Estados Unidos para ayudar a Cuba a combatir el coronavirus en el país y en el extranjero. Cuba ha mostrado solidaridad internacional con Gran Bretaña y otros países durante esta pandemia global. Ahora es ... read more
32 British MPs sign Open Letter calling on UK Government to take action on US blockade of Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 3 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. At the time of writing this article, 32 members of parliament, across various parties in the UK, have now signed an open letter asking for the US blockade ... read more
US blocks medical aid to Cuba in show of ‘wild west brutality’
News from Cuba | Friday, 3 April 2020
CUBA has blasted the continuing US economic blockade warning of a “violation of human rights” after a shipment of vital medical aid from China was stopped from reaching the country on Tuesday. Washington was accused of acting with “Wild West brutality,” using the Covid-19 outbreak as an opportunity to “strangle the ... read more
‘Criminal blockade’: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions
News from Cuba | Thursday, 2 April 2020
Please sign our open letter asking for the US blockade to be lifted to help Cuba fight the coronavirus at home and abroad. Cuba has slammed the US’ “criminal blockade” of the country after the embargo stood in the way of the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and ventilators donated by ... read more
Prensa, 01/04/2020 - MILES DE PERSONAS AGRADECEN A CUBA POR SU INTERNACIONALISMO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CORONAVIRUS Y EXIGEN EL FIN DEL BLOQUEO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS.
Campaign News | Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Prensa, 01/04/2020 MILES DE PERSONAS AGRADECEN A CUBA POR SU INTERNACIONALISMO EN LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CORONAVIRUS Y EXIGEN EL FIN DEL BLOQUEO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS. Casi 7000 personas de más de 80 países ya han firmado una carta abierta internacional, y dejaron mensajes maravillosos para agradecer a Cuba por sus esfuerzos ... read more
